Laws and Principles Quiz
All the questions in this quiz are about laws, principles and adages!
Questions
- Whose law is an adage that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong"?
- What name is given to the principle that, of two explanations that account for all the facts, the simpler one is more likely to be correct?
- Whose law states that the tension on a spring or other elastic object is proportional to the displacement from the equilibrium?
- The Peter principle states that "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of" what?
- Complete the adage: "Don't hide your light under a ...."?
- Whose laws of planetary motion describe the motion of the planets around the sun?
- Godwin’s Law is the principle that the longer an online Internet discussion goes on, the more likely it becomes that someone will make a comparison to who or what?
- In physics, how many laws of motion did Newton define concerning the behaviour of moving bodies?
- Which poet wrote: "It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"?
- Whose law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points?
- Whose law states that "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion"?
- Whose law is the simple formula used to calculate the refraction of light when travelling between two media of differing refractive index?
- Which law states that if something can go wrong, it will?
- Whose principle indicates that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially submerged, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces?
- In economics, whose law is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good"?
- Can you finish Acton's dictum: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts ...."?
- In Aesop's Fables, appearances often are what?
- In whose Three Laws of Robotics is it stated that a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm?
- In the bible, in Jeremiah 13:23, what cannot change his spots?
- Cunningham’s Law states that the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to post a question – but to post what?
- Which science fiction writer coined the law: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"?
- What makes the heart grow fonder?
- Can you add the last word to Sturgeon’s Law: "90% of everything is ..."?
- Can you complete the Henry Ford quote about the Model T car: "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants, so long as it is ...."?
Answers:
- Murphy's law
- Occam's razor
- Hooke's law
- Incompetence
- Bushel
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Hitler or Nazis
- Three
- Alfred Lord Tennyson ("In Memoriam")
- Ohm's law
- Parkinson's law
- Snell's law
- Sod's law
- Archimedes' principle
- Gresham's law
- Absolutely
- Deceiving
- Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
- A leopard
- The wrong answer
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Absence
- Crud
- Black